Welcome to this week’s edition of “Week in Test”, a curated list of where you as a contributor can get involved (testers needed), learning opportunities, and some reading to keep you informed.
🙋♀️ 🙋 Contributing: Tester Help Needed
Looking for ways to contribute? The following tickets and patches need contributors.
Manual testing help needed
Who? All contributors (not just developers) who can set up a local testing environment, apply patches, and test per the testing instructions.
The following tickets need testers to manual test and provide feedback (test report):
- #52224: RSS Widget: allow removing the feed icon link
- #48787: Classic Editor user interface CSS inconsistencies when toggling “Enable full-height editor …”
- #52241: Windows OS specific – infinite loop in
clean_dirsize_cache()
PHPUnit tests help needed
Who? Any QA or PHP developer contributors who can (or is interested in learning how to) build automated PHPUnit tests.
The following tickets need PHPUnit tests build:
- #47642: Order by comment count – posts list tables
- #52241: Windows OS specific – infinite loop in
clean_dirsize_cache() - #50567: Set
$post in update_post_cache() - #49985: REST API: Using
_embedand_fieldsquery parameters in the same query - #52252: PHP Notice when
monthnumquery var is set without theyearQV
Reproducing reported issue help needed:
Who? Any contributor.
The following new tickets need testers to attempt reproducing the reported issue and then providing a test report with the results:
- #54147 – XMLRPC API ignores empty terms_names array
- #54161 – WordPress destroy IIS web.config when using “location” config
- #54169 – Gutenberg issue – when columns are set to Full width they extend beyond editor window bounds
- #54181 – Terms management screen shows bulk actions dropdown even if there are no terms
Reproducing the reported issue is the first step in a new defect ticket’s lifecycle. Why? In order to fix a bug, first step is confirm the bug is reproducible and is due to WordPress Core itself (and not a third party like a plugin or theme).
Reading
- 5.9 End-to-End (e2e) Working Strategy Session Agenda for 29 Sep 2021 – All invited!
- Changes to the WordPress Core PHP Test Suite – dev note for 5.9
Props to @boniu91 for peer review.